Re: NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers Ver 56.64 - 3/15/04 (FYI)

From: Jason Tsang (jason-onlineDEL_at_ETEmvps.org)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:29:57 -0500

Typically, many machines have software images placed on them.
These images are known to be working at the time of the creation of these
images.

Machines are then boxed up, and ready to ship.

It'd cost a significant amount of resources to update these images and/or
unbox the machines to install these images each and everytime new updates
came out (not to mention the resources needed to test everything).

Even custom built machines often have images placed on their hard drives,
made in such a way that it will handle any custom config that a manufacturer
would offer. 

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Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
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"gbellucci" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>      ----- Bob [MVP] wrote: -----
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>      Thanks for the heads-up!
>
>      Can you describe specificlly what types of improvements you got?
>
> I just received my MCE about a week ago. After receiving the system and
getting it running with a monitor I started updating all of the software. I
will never understand why OEMs don't ship units with updated releases. Once
the upgrades were completed I completed the rest of the hardware install
(hookup to TV/Settop box/etc). I was really unhappy with the video. I tried
every possible combination of S-Video, TvOut, Digital In, Digital Out,
composite, RGB... I couldn't find any combination of video inputs and
outputs that would give me a reasonable TV picture with Windows on my HDTV
LCD Monitor. I finally resolved myself to RGB for the PC Flat panel and
Digital for the HDTV LCD. The HDTV LCD displayed Windows as oversized and
won't work at 1024 x 768 - other resolutions were also unusable.
>
> I updated the GeForce FX 5600 driver to 53.04 and that helped but didn't
completely resolve the problem. I bought PCStrip and tried different
resolutions and found that the FX 5600 would accept 1024 x 720. When I
installed the 56.64 release - it also contained more resolutions and more
knobs than the previous release. Now, I've set the digital display as the
primary and the Analog signal as the secondary and it looks great at 1024 x
768.
>
> BUT.... I have tons of flicker when the TV video has a great deal of white
in the picture. I've tried turning down the brightness, contrast, played
with NVIDIA monitor color correction. I still haven't found a combination
that will eliminate it. I don't think the tuner is dropping frames although
it could be. There isn't a flicker adjustment for the digital monitor witin
NVIDIA and I'm not going to use the TvOut - that's got to be the worst
picture output I've ever seen. I'm trying to figure out if the TV Tuner that
came with the system (HP m400y) supports hardware or software MPEG
encoding....

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